Testimonials

Albert Sonnevelt - CEO Coaching SchoolMy experience with the Mindconnexion Scan is very positive. Meantime more than fourty teachers of my training institute have mad the scan. They are unanimous pleasantly surprised by the consumer convenience, but even more about the striking results. Therefore the teachers definitely have more insight in their character and behaviour. For me as CEO I have gained much more understanding about the composition of the team of teachers by which I can make clear strategic and operational decisions for a optimal match between student and teacher.

Frans-Peter Dechering - CEO Blooming Bizz ManagementHow is it possible that seemingly simple color patterns show such a stunning picture of yourself in relation to your environment! The report is understandable and offers a sense of direction and practicle advice. I myself have experienced it to be a pleasant and striking aid. I have used Mindconnexion for both myself and for the teams I work with. For teams it is an excellent tool for team composition as well as progress interviews. After some years the outcomes (the results of the Mindconnexion tool) shifted a little as a representation of my own development. The real difference with comparable tools is in the speed and the striking results. To the absence of long verbal questionnaires Mindconexion is not to influence or to manipulate. I also presume that Mindconnexion is culture independent and so can be used worldwide.

Volkert Batelaan - Rodrigues & Batelaan Management ConsultancyI have done a carrier session with Mindconnexion. With my previous employer (Ordina) I was responsible for the division Public. One way or another the culture didn’t seem to fit me anymore and I was searching for an independent enterprise in consultancy. The results of Mindconnexion already confirmed this within three minutes; that is how long it takes to make the scan. I was astonished and immediately attracted by the simplicity, the speed and the surprising depth of Mindconnexion and I highly recommend the tool for companies which set great store by talent and team development.

Robin van Galen - Waterpolo coach, public speaker, workshop leaderI have had a beautiful demonstration of Mindconnexion. I myself am to a certain degree initiated in the sports version of MBTI which I regularly use for my waterpolo teams. In this way it’s easy to determine the strong and the weak (psychological) aspects of my players. Mindconnexion doesn’t work with questions but with color patterns and that felt a bit odd in the beginning. But the results are far more deeper than I expected. It shows how people deal with their capacities for Receiving and Giving and connects this with Thinking, Willing, Feeling and Doing. These are interesting things to understand about your team. The model shows how these functions interact with each other and that looks very plausible. I can do a lot with this information.

Govert van Oord - Entree Advies, Lobby consultantEntree Consultancy has a long experience in the field of public affairs (lobby) and supports companies, institutions and organizations in their relations with public decision-makers. An important part of our work involves the training of new/young lobbyists in companies and organizations. The personal commitment and approach obviously plays a mayor role in lobby work. An effective lobbyist is well informed, a clever strategist, a realist, but also a connector, because the best lobbyist is a relationship builder. Together with Mindconnexion we developed a module which provides the student/trainee with better understanding of his or her personal capacities. With this knowledge the lobbyist can boost his personal behaviour and book better results for his employer. Where the personality doesn’t totally match with the “ideal image” of the lobbyist there can be searched for support and back up. The module challenges the participants in a stimulating way to connect their lobby skills with more understanding of their own performance.

Roel-Jan Abbas - Practice for OstheopathyIt’s impossible not being thrilled by the results of my Mindconnexion only based on four series of color patterns which I completed in less than ten minutes. Anyhow, I was fascinated to experience the way this tool sheds light and maps the many aspects of my personality. Sometimes characteristics which I only partly knew and which I thanks to this report have experienced. In short, a unique and excellent blueprint of my development as human being in this moment.

Bernadette Meulens - Project leader and developer Fair Play - CoachingColor is like a mirror of your soul! Since four years I work with the color scan of Mindconnexion and I still think it particularly interesting to help people by means of the color scan on their ways to personal growth and awareness. Unemployed people, business people, coaches and young people; they are all surprised about the honesty and pureness of the analysis of Mindconnexion. By the life’s work of Marcel Dekker, people gain more understanding in their lives with beautiful results. “A client was allergic to the color purple. While discussing the results of Mindconnexion it turned out why. She could connect with it and started coping with the trauma from her youth. Meantime the color purple plays an important role in her company; all the employees wear purple working clothes.”

Iris de Raadt - Student who wants to change programI highly recommend Mindconnexion if you have personal questions which you are not able to answer entirely. On the basis of a small color scan you get an insight in your personality. With that information you can have a fruitfull discussion about the questions you have (in my case it was about my choice of what I wish to study). You start to consider things in a different way, whereby you get new insights. Marcel has the quality to extract the accurate information from the results and to connect them with your existential questions. Marcel questions persistently and makes you think. I thought Mindconnexion professional and positive and I thought it worthwhile to have done.

Sheila van der Meeren - CEO Recruitment4youIn 2011 I was introduced to Mindconnexion. I made a color scan for myself and was impressed by the simple model which gave so much in-depth information on the basis of colors and patterns. Later I studied Mindconnexion to be able to make the scan. Over and over again the results are astonishing. For us within Recruitment4You it is an excellent helping hand to deepen the conversation with a candidate and to measure their intrinsic motivation, competences and possible pitfalls. I find Marcel a nice, straight and knowledgeable instructor, who is always ready to help in word and deed when it’s needed. Mindconnexion is pretty innovative by bringing together different perspectives and disciplines. That perfectly matches the philosophy of Recruitment4You.

Pia van Oord - Wiessing - Council member and Consultant Neighbourhoods and LivingMindconnexion and Marcel Dekker are exceedingly helpful in processes whereby personality, personal commitment and team performance are of crucial importance. In a few simple steps a process of inquiry and analysis is initiated in which the main focus is not so much on telling truths, but more on a discovery of personal power and weakness and that of the team. In this process Marcel Dekker is an excellent guide.

Elfriede Oosterlaan - Personal CoachThe color patterns of Mindconnexion generate, in an incredibly short period of time, amazing results. The tool gives a load of useful and recognisable information for the persons involved. Possible imbalance is made transparent by clear illustrations and can easily be used as a basic structure for personal and team discussions. In contrast to expensive, time-consuming assessments or tools with long questionnaires to answer working with Mindconnexion only takes a few minutes. The result; clear, efficient personal information. Also a whole team can be mapped. Mindconnexion gives a direction where to look for and to work on to find personal or team balance. Mindconnexion is multi applicable. It can be for a football-team as well as a Sales team. Personally Mindconnexion shows me over and over again where I stand and what has to be focussed on. Every time it hits the nail on the head. It is especially beneficial for personal relations by showing the possible key points. In this way I can have greater understanding for someone else or at least I know what is going on in the relation. Mindconnexion is clear and effective if you want to connect with yourself and the world “around” you.

Arie van der Ende -Team Leader Secondary Vocational EducationFor me Mindconnexion was and is an instrument to further investigate the behaviour and conduct of the members of a team. Where do the team members emphasize their “being”; how can you work with their talents in a way that they have high return not only for themselves but also for the team. It is a tool which gives a lot of information and sufficient cause to optimise your organization. The color patterns are easy to define, the four elements speak for themselves. For me and for the people in my organisation who have completed the questionnaire it was pretty surprising that the scan exposes your self in such a way that you fully recognize yourself in it. For me Mindconnexion is a way to enhance team functioning, not only for schools but much wider. Every organization on a certain moment has the need for reflection; reflection on itself and on the way the employees function. For that purpose Mindconnexion is a beautiful tool.

Frans-Peter Dechering - CEO Blooming Bizz ManagementHow is it possible that seemingly simple color patterns show such a stunning picture of yourself in relation to your environment! The report is understandable and offers a sense of direction and practicle advice. I myself have experienced it to be a pleasant and striking aid. I have used Mindconnexion for both myself and for the teams I work with. For teams it is an excellent tool for team composition as well as progress interviews. After some years the outcomes (the results of the Mindconnexion tool) shifted a little as a representation of my own development. The real difference with comparable tools is in the speed and the striking results. To the absence of long verbal questionnaires Mindconexion is not to influence or to manipulate. I also presume that Mindconnexion is culture independent and so can be used worldwide.

Caren Post-Reinoud - coach/trainer/implementation manager /mobility manager/procurement consultantI see Mindconnexion as a low threshold imaginative method to develop (personal) understanding. Some parts of the results were easy to recognize while others were harder to grasp in the first instance. My connection with Feeling for example turned out to be rather small in the results while I was convinced that I just did/do everything with feeling. But this quality appears to be more connected to High Sensitivity and that is something I can work on. Unlike other personality tools Mindconnexion is easy, quick (no infinite long questionnaires) and comprehensible. Above all Mindconnexion is an attractive tool for the market which was why I came into contact with it and “judged” it. Really useful for youth (self image versus reality), mobility trajects, as an integral part of a training or a study, coaching instrument, recruitment.

Henk Vermeer - Entrepeneur, IT consultantThe color patterns of Mindconnexion make it impossible for you to reason about wanted answers. So it’s your unconsciousness that is asked to speak. The results give great understanding in the unconscious drives which play their role in the way you feel and how you react to others. When you read the report it all becomes obvious. The scan is very quick and the report is complete. From unconscious incapable to conscious incapable is a huge step and sets you in motion. The tool is ideal for people who are related to other people; everybody whether it is in companies or in other relations. In companies it is a quick tool which opens the way for employees to look at their role in the whole and becoming aware of it.

Frank Olsthoorn - Senior Accountmanager HRMMy first impression of Mindconnexion almost two years ago was surprising, not manipulable, simple and quick. Finally a tool where you don’t have to sit for two hours to answer questions and assumptions. The strength of Mindconnexion lies in its simplicity combined with the sound logic behind it. The inspiring discussion with Marcel Dekker following the results was remarkable affirmative and harmonised perfectly well with my situation of that moment. I was “in between jobs” then and with Mindconnexion (I am a combination of Fire-Willing and Air-Thinking) Marcel gave me the right push in the back for the pursuit of my plans. As an experienced pro in employment mediation I strongly recommend Mindconnexion for discussions in the context of recruitment and selection, performance reviews, coaching, career and educational choices, outplacement.